Summer Fun: Our Favorite Quotes About Baseball

Baseball is America’s favorite pastime — it’s also summer’s most popular spectator’s sport. Now that the best weather of the year is finally here, we’re ready for a ball game. The game is special to so many people for many different reasons and it’s hard to put into words what baseball means to everyone, but there are a few people who can sum it up accurately. Here are our favorite quotes about baseball.

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” -Bob Feller

“When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.” -Joe DiMaggio

“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.” -Nolan Ryan

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” –Ted Williams

“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.” Ty Cobb

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” -Hank Aaron

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” -Rogers Hornsby, Sr.

“If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.” -Phyllis Diller

“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball… The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” -Babe Ruth